Beaded welting



Aug. 6, 1929. RUNEY 1,723,977

BEADED WELTING Filed March 24. 1928 IN VENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

UNITED STATES 1,723,977 PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE L. RUNEY, 015 BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR T W. FALLON LEATHER 00., OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS.

BEADED WELTING.

Application filed March 24, 1928. Serial No. 264,352.

a This invention relates to improvements in the type of welting known as beaded or storm welting.

Many makes of shoes now on the market are provided. with a filler strip comprising a bead or rib that lies in the shoe crease formed between the upper and the welt of the shoe. This head or filler helps to exclude dirt and moisture from the shoe crease and gives the shoe a heavier and storm-proof appearance.

The head or rib of storm welting should be so constructed that it will be firmly secured in place in the finished shoe and should he formed of finished leather or other material that will present a pleasing appearance in the crease of the shoe. It is also desirable that the head or filler be so constructed that it will exclude moisture from the crease of the shoe.

Various forms of beaded or storm welting have been proposed heretofore in an effort to meet these requirements, and the present invention relates to a novel form of beaded welting that constitutes a good practical construction and at the same time is easy and inexpensive to manufacture.

The novel features of the present invention will be best understood from the fol lowing description when read in connection with the accompanying drawing of one good form of the invention.

In the drawings:

Fig. 1 is a perspective View of a piece of welt;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a filler or bead forming strip;

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a thin coverforming strip;

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a strip of beaded welting formed in accordance with the present invention; and

Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional View through a portion of a shoe provided with beaded welting of the present invention.

The strip of welt may be cut from leather stock as is usual and is preferably provided with the usual stitch-receiving groove 11 and the bevel 12 to increase the flexibility of the edge of the welt and to cause it to fit snugly in the crease of the shoe.

To the upper face of the welt 10 is ad hcsively secured, in accordance with the present invention, a filler or head forming Cir strip 13 of the desired size and shape. This filler strip may be formed of leather or other suitable material.

A thin cover strip 14 is then laid over the upper face of the welt 10 and over the tiller strip 13 to form the desired head 15. This cover strip may be formed of upper leather or other material that will present the desired appearance at the exposed face of the beaded welting, but in many cases it will be desirable to obtain the welt 10 and the cover strip 14 from the same leather stock.

This may be done by skiving or splitting the leather stock, preferably before it has been cut into the narrow welt forming strips, to secure from the leather stock a relatively thick sheet of leather from which the grain surface has been removed, and a thin sheet of leather having the finished grain or hair surface. The thick sheet may then be cut longitudinally to form the welt 10 of the desired width and having an upper face from which the grain surface has been removed, and the thin upper surface skived from the leather stock may be cut longitudinally to form the cover strip 14 of the desired width. The width of the strip 14 may be either wider or narrower than the welt 10 depending upon the desired construction of the finished welting.

In the drawing the strips 10 and 14 are shown as having approximately the same width and as a result when the cover sheet 10 is laid over the filler strip 13 its inner edge will terminate about at the starting point of the downwardly inclined bevel 12, while the outer edge of the cover strip will lie fiush with the edge of the welt or base strip 10, as will be apparent from Fig. 4.

The cover strip 14 is firmly cemented to the upper face of the strip 10 and the fact that the grain surface has been removed from the strip 10 will cause the adhesive to adhere more firmly to this surface.

After the beaded welting has been secured to a shoe, as shown in Fig. 5, the cover strip 14 will be further secured to the base strip 10 by the usual inseam stitches 16 that bind the welt 10, shoe upper 17 and insole 18 together, since these stitches preferably pass through the marginal edge portion of the strip 14, and the outer marginal aortion of the strip 14 will be secured to tie welt 10 by the stitches 19 that fasten the outer sole 20 to the beaded waiting.

exception of the material required to form the filler strip 13, and that the present form of beaded welting is easy to construct.

What is claimed is: 1. As an article of manufacture, beaded 'Welting, comprising a base strip having a beveled edge adapted to engage the shoe upper, a filler strip secured to the upper face of the base strip, and a separate cover strip of substantially the same Width as the base strip laid over the basestrip and'filler strip in an extended condition and secured to the base strip'to cover the filler and upper face of the base strip without extending appreciably over said beveled edge.

2. As an article of manufacture, beaded Welting, comprising a base strip formed of leather from which the grain surface has been skived and having a beveled edge adapted to engage the shoe upper, a filler strip secured to the upper face of the base strip, and a separate cover strip of substantially the same width as the base strip laid over the base strip and filler strip in an extended condition and secured to the base strip to cover the filler and upper face of the base strip Without extending appreciably over said beveled edge.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

GEORGE L. RUNEY. 

